Spend any time writing online, and you’ll inevitably run into people, at times, who seem to have an odd understanding of what you published. Some of this is down to laziness – people scan the text and react to what they assume you wrote. Sometimes it’s an actual misunderstanding that’s either down to bad writing on your part or poor reading on theirs. But more and more I’ve had to face the possibility that my thought processes are just substantively different from the way the majority approaches the world. Occasionally, I get reactions from intelligent people who clearly read the...